Curse Of The Coffin

Season 5, Episode 6, Aired
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When strange accidents occur in the lab, the CSI team is spooked during a death investigation involving voodoo. As Halloween is near everyone starts to think that the lab is cursed.
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  • All time favourite

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    By ferriswheel01, Nov 04, 2011 Report Abuse
    I absolutley loved this episode. I guess I'm a little biast because the only reason I enjoyed this episode was due to the fact that Ryan is in it a lot. I love Ryan so much that I find no matter what the synopsis the episode is fantastic. Although honestly I would have given this a 10 anyway cos the actual plot was unique in comparison to any other shows and episodes. I thought that the most hilarious thing that happened during this episode was Horatio walking away from the car saying "Burn baby burn" while it was blowing up. he is so corny.moreless

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  • Wow!! That was ... ridiculously STUPID!

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    By JaneDoe2007, Nov 04, 2011 Report Abuse
    I read all about the stupidity of this episode, but what I really saw was unimaginable!! It was horrible! I felt almost disoriented watching the many events and jumbled characters ... it was completely messed up. The dialogue was non-existent, the plot was overstuffed and the acting was ... "Miami style" ... speaks for itself.

    God I hate Caruso. Can't believe I used to like him a while back!! I mean seriously; "Burn baby burn"??!! Come on, what's up with the writers? If this represents a sample of what's coming next this season I might as well save myself some time and go study or something.

    This show is going downhill fast, why I still watch it ... God only knows!!moreless

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  • One of the best episode in this series.

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    By Danny2312, Nov 04, 2011 Report Abuse
    I don't believe in voodoo, but I do like this episode. This episode is awesome. I don't expect this episode to be good because CSI: Miami gives me many disappointing episode, including the episodes "Rio", "Death Pool 100" and more. But this episode is totally different, this episode is great, exciting, and a little creepy. I love this episode so much! Ryan Wolfe started to believe in voodoo when he saw a dead body wakes up in the morgue. That is creative. I love it. Congratulations to Sunil Nayar and Krystal Houghton, for such an excellent episode for CSI: Miami viewers.moreless

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  • Poor Ryan lol

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    By moggiye16, Nov 18, 2010 Report Abuse
    This was an exciting episode, filled with suspense and lame clichés. The goat's head was a little gross. I mean, how do you miss that? The smell would definitely get to me faster than the bugs buzzin' about. I loved how Ryan was trying to be manly and trying to get Calleigh to believe he wasn't scared. I think the best part about this episode was how the writers were able to tie all the strange phenomenons back to scientic reasons. Like, Ryan's hands going numb, Boa Vista's face getting all bloody, although that wasn't really science, more like accident. But then that's how strange things happen, right?

    I think the only stickler I had was David Caruso's acting or lack there of. Before Caruso fans get on my @$$ for saying that, I want to remind y'all I'm entitled to my opinion, so hear me out. The whole "burn baby, burn," thing was really lame. And when the suspect said, "golfing isn't illegal," Caruso says, "but murder is," was way over used. I think the writers need to upgrade Caruso's character.moreless

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  • Voodoo and curses and coffins oh my!!

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    By missmenace, Oct 17, 2007 Report Abuse
    This episode started out with a dead girl and a small coffin beside her. Eric fills us in on the Santaria curses and won't touch anything in the room. Wolfe ends up bagging the coffin and then the fun begins. I loved how they crushed every curse theory with science almost immediatley. As Calleigh says early on " I belive in Scince" There were some humerous moments which is good to see with this team. Speedle used to add comedy with his wisecracks, but there aren't many lately. There was the part with Horatio bravely driving the car off the lab property to dispose of the bomb, but come on writers give us some credit, we watched him drive, live for 4 minutes, on a highway, to the beach, couldn't you have written that part better. The only thing that wasn't explained in this show was the small coffin. Where did it come from? And how it get there? Which brings me to the perfect ending, the one small piece of evidence unexplained, goes missing and ends up under the criminal's chair. Perfect!! Leave that one trace of "maybe there is a curse" left for us to mill over.moreless

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    • International Episode Titles: Czech Republic: Prokletá rakev (Cursed Coffin) Edit
    • Dondre T. Whitfield's wife Salli Richardson appeared in the show's first season as a lab tech named Laura. Edit
    • International Air Dates: Norway: September 11, 2007 on TVNorge Portugal: May 4, 2008 on SIC Czech Republic: October 7, 2008 on TV Nova Edit

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    • Natalia: I guess you just... you never know when death is coming. Horatio: No, we don't, and that's why we shouldn't live in fear of it. Edit
    • Ryan:You know, all this bad stuff started happening when I touched that coffin. You don't think that that's a coincidence,do you? You know, like Alissa was cursed by it and now I am? Calleigh: Don't be silly.I belive in science. Ryan: Yeah, I do too, I'm just, I'm just saying it's kinda weird. Calleigh: It's not weird. We're just here to pick up Alissas computer. It's right here, we'll shut it down, bring it to the lab, and have Cooper analyse the harddrive. It's very simple. ( The computers goes up in flames on it's own) Ryan: Coincidence? Edit
    • Calleigh: You see, I don't think this place is so scary in the daytime, do you? Ryan: What? Nah, come on, I wasn't scared. Calleigh: You know I listened to the entire tape, don't you, Ryan? Ryan: So, there was an accomplice here? Calleigh (laughs): Way to change the subject. Edit

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    • Cooper: So I frankensteined this little contraption you see before you. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel by Mary Shelley first published in 1818. It tells the story of the creation of a working 'man' by the cobbling together of parts of various corpses, in the same way Cooper has cobbled together computer parts to access the damaged hard-drive. Edit
    • Horatio: Burn baby, burn The lyrics Burn Baby, Burn are from the chorus of Disco Inferno is a single by The Trammps from the eponymous album. It gained much greater recognition once it was included on the soundtrack to the 1977 film Saturday Night Fever. It was also notably covered Tina Turner in 1993 and by Cyndi Lauper in 1999. Edit

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